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Link: Women Behind Canadian TV: Stephane Ouaknine

From Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies:

Link: Women Behind Canadian TV: Stephane Ouaknine
“Producers are continually faced with an avalanche of compromises, and my job is to work through these and decide which compromises are acceptable for the show and which ones aren’t. Then of course, there’s all the outreach, distribution, and release strategy we work on with the amazing team at Shaftesbury/Smokebomb. When we’re not in heavy pre–production, I’m working on developing new projects.” Continue reading.

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Children's Programming, Industry News

Link: Sinking Ship and Corus developing comedy series

From Sara Alessi of WorldScreen:

Link: Sinking Ship and Corus developing comedy series
Sinking Ship Entertainment and Corus Entertainment have entered into a development deal for the comedy series 4Player.

Created by Vivieno Caldinelli and Mark De Angelis, 4Player is a single-camera sitcom for kids ages 8 to 12. It follows a rag-tag group of teenage gamers who are great at video games but are “all thumbs” when it comes to everything else in life. Continue reading.

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Fubar, Industry News

Vice Studio Canada and Rogers Media announce start of production on FUBAR

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From a media release:

VICE Studio Canada and Rogers Media today announced the start of production on their second original scripted series for VICELAND – FUBAR. Taking the beloved film franchise and hurtling it into the modern age, the eight-part, half-hour series, currently filming in Montreal, reunites director Michael Dowse and stars David Lawrence and Paul Spence in their original roles as Terry and Dean. FUBAR is slated to premiere in 2017 on VICELAND, with full broadcast details to be announced at a later date.

The series opens with Terry (Lawrence) and Dean (Spence) fleeing from the wildfires of Fort McMurray, in a desperate retreat to Calgary, with nothing but emergency government debit cards to their names. Discovering high-speed Internet for the first time, Terry is exposed to a world of commerce and social media and attempts to harness the web to make a profit. Meanwhile, Dean embarks on a journey to record a triple-concept album, using his burnt bass guitar and no-nuts falsetto voice.

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Industry News

Link: How the CRTC failed Cancon with the Super Bowl simsub decision

From Greg O’Brien of Cartt.ca:

Link: How the CRTC failed Cancon with the Super Bowl simsub decision
The decision to set aside simultaneous substitution and, essentially, cause direct harm to Bell Media – the company which purchased the rights to the game in Canada – is a fundamental departure from what the Commission is supposed to do, which is promote, foster and enable the distribution of Canadian content and culture through the Canadian broadcasting system. It’s impossible to fathom how setting aside the simultaneous substitution rules for a single program – the most popular one of the year at that – meets those objectives. Continue reading.

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Link: Bell/CTV hit for Super Bowl loss as half the Canadian audience opts for US ads

From Bill Brioux of Brioux.tv:

Link: Bell/CTV hit for Super Bowl loss as half the Canadian audience opts for US ads
The overnight, estimated tally for Bell Media’s share of the Super Bowl audience suggests that up to half the Canadian football audience opted to watch the game — and the American ads — on Fox Network border stations.

For the game itself –from kickoff at approx. 6:37 p.m. ET to the end of overtime and the beginning of celebrations on the field at 10:25 p.m., Bell’s triple-channel take broke down as such: CTV: 2,912,000 viewers; TSN: 515,000; CTV Two: 446,000. Continue reading. 

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